This document provides an introduction to writing expository essays for a week 1 writing course. It discusses the purpose of expository essays as conveying information to readers through facts and explanation without opinion. Various prewriting and brainstorming techniques are introduced to help students organize their thoughts before writing, including freewriting, listing, considering multiple perspectives on a topic, and questioning formats like who, what, when, where, why and how. Students are then prompted to practice brainstorming techniques through an interactive activity.

1. Essay Writing-Week 1
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2. What to Expect…
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Expository and Persuasive Essay writing
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skills

3. The week ahead…
Introduction of the Expository Essay
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Brainstorming and Organizing your
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thoughts
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4. The Expository Essay

5. Purpose of an
Expository Essay
Writing to inform
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To present important information about a
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specific subject.

6. Elements of an Expository Essay
Your goal:
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Share facts
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Explain these facts as necessary
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Guide your reader to a clear understanding of
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your subject

7. How do you write Expository
essays?
Some brief tips:
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Explain the topic
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Use facts, statistical information, or examples
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Write without emotion
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Use third person (this means that you do not
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use the pronoun “I” in the essay).

8. Examples of Expository Texts
Brochure How-to Writing
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Catalog Letters
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Definitions Literary Analysis
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Editorials Magazine
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Essays Newsletters
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Guide Books Summaries
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Pamphlets Textbooks
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9. But…
Before we go any further, we must first
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learn how to begin the process of writing
of an essay.
The very first step in the writing process is
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called Prewriting.

10. Prewriting
The prewriting stage is when we figure
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out what we will write about and how we
will structure our essay.
To begin the prewriting stage, we start
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with brainstorming.

11. Brainstorming is:
A useful technique in writing which
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permits one to approach a topic with
an open mind.
The actual process of brainstorming
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involves writing down any word or idea
that comes to mind about the topic.
Every idea, even if it seems
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insignificant or unrelated, is valid.

12. Ways to Brainstorm
There are lots of ways to brainstorm. We’ll just talk
generally about some of them.
Freewriting-This is when you put your pen
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to paper and just write whatever comes
into your mind.
Listing/bulleting- This is when you write
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things down on a list under certain
categories that you think you might be
writing about.

13. More Brainstorming Techniques
Three perspectives -This techniques asks you to
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look at something in three different ways.
1.) Describe it.
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2.) Trace it-look at the history of the subject, how it
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has changed over time, etc.
3.) Map it-what is your subject related to, who is
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influenced by it, etc.

14. Brainstorming Techniques
(cont.)
Cubing-This is when you consider your topic
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from six different ways-1.) Describe it. 2.)
Compare it. 3.) Associate it. 4.) Analyze it. 5.)
Apply it. 6.) Argue for and against it.
Journalistic questions -Ask about your topic:
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Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How?

15. An Adventure!
Now it’s time to go on an adventure! Click
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on the “To Where Is My Brain Storming”
link and get ready to set sail!
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message. I’m here to help you!